No blogging today in observance of the 4th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Winds of Change has some great posts at http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/005499.php.
Tonight, I'll go to the 7:30 p.m. Mass at Old St. Mary's in the city. We'll pray for the dead and the living. Something I'll be thinking and praying about will be the resurrection on the last day. We speak of it every week during the Creed, but I don't think that most people really give it any thought. On the last day, those asleep in death will arise, body and soul. Me, my grandmother, Abe Lincoln, the woman who washed Nero's clothes. Everyone. This is what the Cathechism of the Catholic Church has to say about it in paragraph 1038 (http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/1038.htm):
1038 The resurrection of all the dead, "of both the just and the unjust," will precede the Last Judgment. This will be "the hour when all who are in the tombs will hear [the Son of man's] voice and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment." Then Christ will come "in his glory, and all the angels with him. . . . Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left. . . . And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Hey Procrastinus, your blogging is missed! :)
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Posted by: Vegas Joe's girl | January 06, 2006 at 10:52 PM